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...from the depleted farms, and it was maintained by preventing outside help from reaching the starving. No soup kitchens were set up, as they had been during the much less severe famines of the czarist era. Conquest argues that Stalin was aiming at the genocide of the Ukrainians, whose nationalist yearnings he despised and feared. The toll supports his view. Of the 7 million who died of hunger, 6 million were Ukrainians...
...Some Chinese have members of their direct families living in Taiwan. How anybody can deny them the right to see their dear ones, I don't understand," Han said. When the communists under Mao Zedong gained control of China in 1949, the Nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-Shek took refuge on the nearby island of Taiwan...
...racial storms before, but until now it had never faced a proposal that would literally split the city. Next month, Boston voters in ten mostly black legislative districts will decide whether they want to secede from the city and establish a separate municipality called Mandela, after jailed South African Nationalist Leader Nelson Mandela and his wife Winnie. Covering 12.5 square miles in the center of town, Mandela would be home to about a fourth of Boston's 600,000 people, including most of its blacks...
...evolving foreign policy. Whatever will be for the greater good of the Philippines is what I want. I am a nationalist, and as far as I am concerned, nationalism means doing whatever is in the best interests of the great majority of the people. Since we are unable at present to generate more employment for our people, we need foreign investment and we have to make it attractive for these investors, or they will go elsewhere. I view the U.S. bases in the same way. First of all, I ask myself if I am convinced that they . will...
Syria has little sympathy for either half of the peace envisioned in the West. Syria not only rejects the existence of an Israeli state, it has little use for a Palestinian state. Syria and its favorite Lebanese terror group, the Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party, have a different vision. An Associated Press dispatch summarizes it nicely: "The secular SSNP seeks the merger of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, pre-Israel Palestine, Iraq, Kuwait and Cyprus" -- Cyprus! -- "into a Greater Syria...